Random thought on complaining about hipsters

Hipsters have become a big internet meme, just like zombies and pictures of cats. I was listening to an archive of a really old episode of The Best Show on WFMU from 2000. One of the guests started complaining about hipsters and Williamsburg. So, effectively this has been going on for at least ten years.

I've been identified as a hipster before and it doesn't bother me, but I'm not personally championing it as a movement, if you can even call it that. It's just dumb and old and I'm tired of it. So to everyone:

Conservatives - Who cares if they dress funny and support the gays/are gay? They are perfectly compatible with capitalism, which works out a lot better for you than actual hippies.

Liberals - You can have a poser fight with them all day if you want. Who cares if someone supports an issue just because it's cool? At least you are getting some support for your cause. If you think they are silly or annoying, just ignore them.

To the internet/everyone else - Vice magazine does the best job of both creating hipsters and making fun of them, so just leave it to the experts. We can still enjoy making fun of people at Walmart, because that will never ever get old.

Setting the record straight on Marx

During the debate on health care reform Karl Marx's name has been drug through the mud time and again. Being a dedicated Marx scholar, it pains me to see how he has been grossly misrepresented for petty political gain. I'd like to set the record straight.

Karl Max - A Condensed History for the People
by Wes Beltz

Karl Marx was the inventor of Communism and Socialism. He moved to Germany in the early 1930's and became good pals with Adolph Hitler. Hitler loved Marx's Socialism idea so much that he ran with it and formed the Nazi party. Towards the end of the war things were looking hairy, and Josef Mengele who had just made extraordinary breakthroughs in artificial insemination suggested that high ranking Nazi officials and other people of great import donate sperm samples to be kept for a future Nazi uprising. Hitler volunteered Karl Marx for the experiment and his sperm was kept in cold storage. Somewhere along the way several of the samples were handed off to the Japanese. Due to Allied attacks on supply ship convoys these samples were thought to have been lost not too far off the coast of Hawaii...

Karl Marx himself fled Germany and lived for many years in the seclusion of Siberia. As the Cold War continued to gain momentum in the 1960's he was called back to the Soviet Union where he served as a valuable adviser on Communism and Socialism(obviously). Tragically, he was killed on the eve of his 80th birthday as part of the Berlin Wall literally fell on top of him.

Perfect

photo by me

I'm probably not going to subject myself to the Hell of trying to get a Japanese driver's license, but with the possibility of a longer commute looming I've been daydreaming about picking up a Honda Super Cub.

Wikipedia agrees, it's one of the best motorcycles ever made.

Here you go

For whatever reason I haven't had the initiative to write about anything outside of some posts on my Twitter account.

I went through the process of getting all of my film work onto my Flickr account instead of creating an artist's site like I told myself I was going to do.

Anyway.

Please just stop

Like Dragon Ball Z, Godzilla, and many other Japanese pop culture icons, America totally fucks it up again.

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